Biography
Prof. Haughton is lead of iCRAG's Energy Transition research. Peter is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. After a year working in mineral exploration in the Irish Midlands, he took up a University of Glasgow Overseas Scholarship and obtained a PhD in 1986 for work on Old Red Sandstone conglomerates in the NE Midland Valley of Scotland. Subsequently he was appointed as a Britoil Research Fellow (1985-1988) and then a Royal Society of Edinburgh/BP Research Fellow (1988-1991), both at the University of Glasgow. From 1991 to 1996, he worked as a consultant in the oil industry, before returning to Dublin in 1996 to take up a lectureship at UCD. Peter was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sedimentology from 2002-2006.
Role
- Co-Principal Investigator
Institution
- UCD
Research Area
- Earth System Change, Earth Resources, Platform Technologies
Expertise
- Offshore basins, Climate and Environment, Reservoirs and Storage, Geomodelling
